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OUTSKI: HSU President Fegan suspended after bullying finding
The feuding at the Health Services Union looks like reaching its conclusion following the laying of charges against and twenty-eight day suspension of its troubled President, Pauline Fegan.
Consultants have recently been ordered in to investigate staff claims of bullying and harassment against the senior official who occasionally dabbles in Chinese giftware importing.
Union insiders tell VEXNEWS these incidents included threatening visits to staff member’s homes and even locking one union employee in a cupboard. “This is obviously a potential Workcover nightmare” an informed source explained.
The rampage of bullying occurred after Fegan had been disappointed in her ambition to become union national secretary, a union insider revealed.
A deal had been done recently to quietly manage the crisis with a managed retirement plan for Fegan that would respect her previous contribution while minimising the union’s potential legal liability for workplace injuries including compensation for stress-related illness.
Sadly this blew up when Fegan reneged on the arrangement and attempted to assert her dominance at the Branch Committee of Management, where she has many loyal supporters. Indeed other observers say Fegan once enjoyed a lot of support at union workplaces.
Observers say the union needs to be particularly careful in managing its WorkCover risk because of high claims dating from the notorious Zora Marko era where the then union secretary collected income payments for many years for what she said was the brutal treatment she received at the union.
Union watchers believe it unlikely Fegan will be able to return to the union.
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She is a brutal thug!
I left the HSU because of that disgusting PIG!!!!
That photo is not Fegan now. She has put on 20Kg and looks uglier than ever. Andrew get a real photo not a photo shopped job.
Well well, the one that was bullying me was not Pauline Fegan, in fact this person bullied more than one person, and is still doing it.
Have you guys had the guts to call in Worksafe and get something independent to look at it.
Please, do not hide behind fake names, show some guts and identify yourself.
The sad part about all this is you are neglecting your members, remember the ones that pay your wages
Good thing Irene left the HSU, just before she was charged with sexual harassment. Irene, Dirty old woman in love with the Bully, Pauline. Oh how shit sticks together!!!
In every workplace and walk of life the are some bad eggs. Unions are no different. For my experience the HSU team are great and do a great job for the members. I now they have done a great job in representing me agaist a nasty manager ripping me off with my entitlements. Get rid of those few bad eggs and the smell will go with them. Rock on HSU.
The word around the union movement is not to go near the HSU because of that dangerous woman, the stories about her antics defy belief
I hear you could fill a footy team with the number of peple who have walked out of that union because of her outragous behavier
Dear Victim - well I gave 3 months notice and you say if I did not leave I would be charged with sexual harrassment - if you mean suggestive comment - fine guilty - old yes I am 64. Physical sexual harrassment - no way -
Anyhow, show some guts and say who you are.
I always thought the one who was making the charges against Pauline was her best personal friend and the other one behind it was also her close friend. With friends like this who needs enemies. STAY
hope someone remembers that
Let’s hope she hangs up her strap on and retires disgracefully
Taxpayers will end up paying for this with WorkCover no doubt going to pay a hefty bill.
This OBESE pig has no idea what is coming her way
Jeff is just keeping the seat warm for me.
Pauline should be in jail for what she’s done.
My dirt files on everyone enable me to Seemore.
Is it corrupt if you run a union and sell overpriced goods to that union ?
Should the police be called in ?
Bullying is the most innocent of Fegan’s actions. It’s probably the most charming part of her.
I am not sure Pauline Fegan should be worried about the finances
Those overpriced goods were made by child labor in China, Where are the Police?
Hey, lay off you venomous bastards!
Those dairies that started their working week on a Tuesday work brilliant. I for startes, don’t do Mondays. So, Fegan should be respected as a genius for thinking of that!
As I understand it, the HSU is an organisation on the move, not without its flaws, but growing by the week under the stewardship of somebody with vision, Comrade Jackson and a team bristling with talent.
I’ve met you Pauline and this is where you dip out. HSU members might be familiar and somehow comforted by your old school bullish and contrary ways but not when they are the collateral. They are the ones you are killin here. As you did with those itchy ill-fitting Your Rights At Work T-shirts in 07. Classics. Well sourced!
Any member that reads this be aware that Pauline’s Dreamy Team, minus one charismatic but waywardly loyal scot, are committed to an old world that values you not one bit (but recruit away if you could). They do not work, they are not accountable, and with their wayward mate and president they want to stay that way if thats alright with you.
Time to go Old Girl.
Good point DUG, and for what its worth Fegan only charged the union $30,000 for them
Ah those ultra tight shirts she made the union buy, a bargain at $25,000
Hell im stills usings thats diarys no wonders everyones thinks mees is idiot
Ultra tight in a Labor Unity union = XL
Wrong… Unless you are referring to condom size.
Why is the only Hicks on anyone’s lips David ?
I am going to be rich.
Thugery is alive and well when people like Pauline Fegan,Mary Cook and Terrie Seymour are arround. Irene Sexual harassment may have something to do with the inapropiate emails you use to send around, you are lucky no one put a complaint in about the discrimination or bullying that you did so people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Ultra tight Garth ….XL if you’re talking about cup size.
Jeff & Pauline will finish each other off.
I will conquer.
I will eat my way back to the top!
Dug, you say you dont do Mondays because of the diaries? whats your excuse for the rest of the week then? Is it because your lazy lazy lazy?
Time to go Fegan! Let the union service its members, you do remember the members, dont you?
Fagen, take the hint and go, maybe you should open a $2 shop and flog your cheap asian shit.
Maybe Fagen can think about the (9year old kids that were forced to make her products on a 16 hour shift for 20 cents a day
It seems that having exploited chinese children to manufacture crap product at almost zero unit cost, Fagen now wants to loot HSU coffers. With her partner in crime, a Maltese Arthur Daly, and their business Urban Shitware (for Misguided Compulsive Consumers), Fagen has wrenched a burgeoning profit from the sweat of enslaved children. But that is not enough to satisfy her insatiable materialistic greed. She has also seduced a Dream Team consisting of a Conveyancing Lawyer, a Pink Nosed Alcoholic masquerading as a pathologically lazy Organiser, and a dubious senior Fagen Zealot with a taste for young girls. With this motley crew, she thinks she can stage a coup and return the HSU to the glory days of the late 90’s, where under her rudderless stewardship, the Union bled members like an arterial rupture, and delivered nothing for the membership.
I’m BLIND drunk again
It will be fascinating on Tuesday to see union reactions to the Fair Work Australia Bill.
No doubt there will be cries of betrayl and ongoing complaints about the heroic ABCC.
All of which is extraordinary when you consider that the workplace practices regularly alluded in our Labor Movement would make members of the ABCC star chamber blanch!
Hey Captain, you forgot to mention her cheif adviser Vici shitlatos
Irene, The sad part is that your mate’s ill-timed and self-serving grab for power is paralysing the union but fortunately only jeopardising the servicing of members. That is because, fortunately for HSU members, HSU staff tolerate a heap more shit than they would allow their members to tolerate and are soldiering on in spite of the egomaniacs attempt to disrupt and discredit.
All u people need to get a life & grow up! Why voice your opinions on a forum under false names… I’ll tell you why cos you all have NO BALLS to say it to their faces. COWARDS!!!!
Hey Cowards - just what I have been trying to get across. They hide behind falso names but it does not take many brains to work out who it is.
Hey “Cowards” why put a comment bagging people who use an alias then dont have the guts to use your own name?
The union is here to unite everyone and act as a whole not to break into factions and go against each other . Remember we are here for each other and to grow the union
I think all hsu members need to be concerned regarding the quality of mentality that we have as our board of management! We all know they tried to support Pauline!! We fight for our rights here and she thinks its ok to purchase items from slave labor in China. Get a grip woman I don’t want you representing me!!
Slave labor, bashing union officials , just another day in Fegans mad mad world!
My god bless the HSU and kick that pig out!
Which HSU official was head butted within an inch of his life last week? Why? Why has VP Lawler been relocated from head of the health panel of the AIRC? Where was Pauline at the Delegates dinner?